Children show off flowers and herbs raised at the Langston Community Garden in Washington, D.C., started four years ago to allow residents to grow their own produce.

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Wendy Koch
Gannett

Aiming to lure eco-minded consumers, more residential developers are offering vegetable gardens as an amenity. These gardens are sprouting in new and older complexes, both luxury and affordable.

Richard Rocheleau has a refrigerator drawer full of green peppers that he grew at home. But he doesn't have a house or a backyard. He lives in a condo.

His bounty, including root veggies such as beets and herbs such as rosemary, sage and parsley, yields from a community garden that's part of his new green-certified, 52-unit building in Playa Vista, Calif. ...